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JoshLowry
04-05-2010, 10:54 AM
Today, President Obama announced that he will recess appoint Islam A. Siddiqui to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Siddiqui is a pesticide lobbyist and Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, an agribusiness lobbying group that represents Monsanto.

http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5713

More ammo to wake up your friends comes daily...

LittleLightShining
04-05-2010, 11:24 AM
Thanks, Josh.

wrestlingwes_8
04-05-2010, 11:27 AM
Well this is just great...

haaaylee
04-05-2010, 11:32 AM
wait, i forgot about Monsanto. someone remind me why they are bad again . . .

bobbyw24
04-05-2010, 11:33 AM
Finally, some genuine "Change"

nayjevin
04-05-2010, 11:39 AM
wait, i forgot about Monsanto. someone remind me why they are bad again . . .

Monsanto is to food as SkyNet is to humans

Romulus
04-05-2010, 11:43 AM
Monsanto is to food as SkyNet is to humans

brilliant analogy.

catdd
04-05-2010, 11:44 AM
It's beginning to look like Obama can't do one thing that's in our best interest.

Anti Federalist
04-05-2010, 11:47 AM
Meet the new boss, just the same as the old boss....

PatriotG
04-05-2010, 11:57 AM
Meet the new boss, just the same as the old boss....

Yup. Comes as no surprise.
From December 2008

http://www.restoretherepublic.org/?p=1549


Money talks....Goldman, Monsanto, they call the shots on capital hill.

Anti Federalist
04-05-2010, 06:01 PM
Monsanto GM-corn harvest fails massively in South Africa

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/270101

South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost income when 82,000 hectares of genetically-manipulated corn (maize) failed to produce hardly any seeds.The plants look lush and healthy from the outside. Monsanto has offered compensation.

Monsanto blames the failure of the three varieties of corn planted on these farms, in three South African provinces,on alleged 'underfertilisation processes in the laboratory". Some 280 of the 1,000 farmers who planted the three varieties of Monsanto corn this year, have reported extensive seedless corn problems.
Urgent investigation demanded

However environmental activitist Marian Mayet, director of the Africa-centre for biosecurity in Johannesburg, demands an urgent government investigation and an immediate ban on all GM-foods, blaming the crop failure on Monsanto's genetically-manipulated technology.

Willem Pelser, journalist of the Afrikaans Sunday paper Rapport, writes from Nelspruit that Monsanto has immediately offered the farmers compensation in three provinces - North West, Free State and Mpumalanga. The damage-estimates are being undertaken right now by the local farmers' cooperative, Grain-SA. Monsanto claims that 'less than 25%' of three different corn varieties were 'insufficiently fertilised in the laboratory'.

80% crop failure
However Mayet says Monsanto was grossly understating the problem.According to her own information, some farms have suffered up to 80% crop failures. The centre is strongly opposed to GM-food and biologically-manipulated technology in general.

"Monsanto says they just made a mistake in the laboratory, however we say that biotechnology is a failure.You cannot make a 'mistake' with three different varieties of corn.'

Demands urgent government investigation:
"We have been warning against GM-technology for years, we have been warning Monsanto that there will be problems,' said Mayet. She calls for an urgent government investigation and an immediate ban on all GM-foods in South Africa.
Of the 1,000 South African farmers who planted Monsanto's GM-maize this year, 280 suffered extensive crop failure, writes Rapport.

Monsanto's local spokeswoman Magda du Toit said the 'company is engaged in establishing the exact extent of the damage on the farms'. She did not want to speculate on the extent of the financial losses suffered right now.

Managing director of Monsanto in Africa, Kobus Lindeque, said however that 'less than 25% of the Monsanto-seeded farms are involved in the loss'. He says there will be 'a review of the seed-production methods of the three varieties involved in the failure, and we will made the necessary adjustments.'

He denied that the problem was caused in any way by 'bio-technology'. Instead, there had been 'insufficient fertilisation during the seed-production process'.
And Grain-SA's Nico Hawkins says they 'are still support GM-technology; 'We will support any technology which will improve production.' see

He also they were 'satisfied with Monsanto's handling of the case,' and said Grain-SA was 'closely involved in the claims-adjustment methodology' between the farmers and Monsanto.

Farmers told Rapport that Monsanto was 'bending over backwards to try and accommodate them in solving the problem.

"It's a very good gesture to immediately offer to compensate the farmers for losses they suffered,' said Kobus van Coller, one of the Free State farmers who discovered that his maize cobs were practically seedless this week.

"One can't see from the outside whether a plant is unseeded. One must open up the cob leaves to establish the problem,' he said. The seedless cobs show no sign of disease or any kind of fungus. They just have very few seeds, often none at all.
The South African supermarket-chain Woolworths already banned GM-foods from its shelves in 2000. However South African farmers have been producing GM-corn for years: they were among the first countries other than the United States to start using the Monsanto products.

The South African government does not require any labelling of GM-foods. Corn is the main staple food for South Africa's 48-million people.

The three maize varieties which failed to produce seeds were designed with a built-in resistance to weed-killers, and manipulated to increase yields per hectare, Rapport writes.

phill4paul
04-05-2010, 06:05 PM
Thanks Josh and AF for the post. LOLs boys and girls I think this is gonna be some kinda ride.

jkr
04-05-2010, 06:26 PM
is this NOT a conflict of interest?

phill4paul
04-05-2010, 06:48 PM
is this NOT a conflict of interest?

Not when they are striving for a fascist form of government.

lynnf
04-05-2010, 07:49 PM
is this NOT a conflict of interest?

remember: they only have YOUR best interest at heart (as they stab you in the back)!

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lynn

JoshLowry
04-05-2010, 08:05 PM
is this NOT a conflict of interest?


One year from now, we have the chance to tell all those corporate lobbyists that the days of them setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race - and I've won. I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am President, they won't find a job in my White House. Because real change isn't another four years of defending lobbyists who don't represent real Americans - it's standing with working Americans who have seen their jobs disappear and their wages decline and their hope for the future slip further and further away. That's the change we can offer in 2008.

He only meant his quotes to apply to the year of 2008. '09-'12 do not apply.

Cowlesy
04-05-2010, 08:05 PM
Well if Monsanto corn starts failing in U.S. fields, the entire world is in for a world of sh*t, as Private Pyle would say.

Anti Federalist
04-05-2010, 09:02 PM
Well if Monsanto corn starts failing in U.S. fields, the entire world is in for a world of sh*t, as Private Pyle would say.

No freakin' kidding.

A GM caused crop failure sweeping the US would be a disaster of biblical proportions.

squarepusher
04-05-2010, 09:02 PM
Today, President Obama announced that he will recess appoint Islam A. Siddiqui to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Siddiqui is a pesticide lobbyist and Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, an agribusiness lobbying group that represents Monsanto.

http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=5713

More ammo to wake up your friends comes daily...

ouch, thats pretty nasty

micahnelson
04-05-2010, 09:37 PM
Especially since Roundup saturated fields are gonna have a hard time growing anything by 'santos seeds.

Kylie
04-05-2010, 10:40 PM
He only meant his quotes to apply to the year of 2008. '09-'12 do not apply.



Pwned!!!


Ouch :D